I have always loved science, partly due to the influence of my engineer father, who was heavily involved in research and development. While growing up, my free-time diet consisted of Mr. Wizard, Disney nature films, and doing science experiments.

Wernher von Braun—more than any other scientist—brought us into the space age.¹ Von Braun laid the foundation for cell phones, satellite radio, the Internet, GPS, and Doppler radar. His later career reads like a history of the American space program,² and it was undergirded by a firm belief in the Creator God of the Bible.